Rift: Planes of Telara is a MMORPG developed and published by Trion Worlds. Released on April 4, 2011, the game received positive reviews from both critics and gamers. The game requires a monthly subscription fee or buying prepaid card games.

Players venture into a world endangered magical rifts and the monsters that use these rifts to travel to this realm. Rifts that open across the world, because of the action of the Death God Regulos, are areas of elemental instability which spawn monsters. Players can enter this kind of areas and engage the spawned creatures. If a group of players succeeds in sealing the rift they receive loot and rewards such as buffs, healing and attacking points. Rifts come in six different types: earth, fire, water, air, life and death.

Character customization is rather varied allowing players to tweak their character`s appearance, changing their hairstyles, sex, height and add tattoos. Also players can dye their clothing in game. There are two factions to choose from: Guardians and Defiants each having four different classes: Warrior, Cleric, Rogue and Mage. Each class will unlock nine different “souls”, souls which have unique tree skills. This enables the player to build a character perfectly matched to their own play style.

Since its release Rift has added a massive amount of new features. Rift Lite is now available for all players, giving them the chance to enter the Rift experience for free up to level 20. This gives total access to the beginning of the game including the quests, fights and community. There's no credit card needed and the offer works for both new and returning players so people can repeatedly play through to level 20 if they wish.

Storm Legion is now also available for hardcore Rift fans. This latest expansion adds a mind boggling amount of new content including extra classes, more raids and boss fights, more community features and practically everything in-between. Very few games offer the size of expansion in Storm Legion, offering hundreds of hours of more game time for players and fans.

Rift: Planes of Telara is a great looking game with a permissive class customization system and a nice and entertaining storyline. The game’s heavily focused on PVE.